When Peg left Mr. John Somerville's apartment, it was with a high
degree of satisfaction at the result of her interview. She looked
upon the thousand dollars as sure to be hers. The considerations
which she had urged would, she was sure, induce him to make every
effort to secure her silence. With a thousand dollars, what might
not be done? She would withdraw from the coining-business, for one
thing. It was too hazardous. Why might not Dick and she retire to
the country, lease a country-inn, and live an honest life hereafter.
There were times when she grew tired of the life she lived at
present. It would be pleasant to go to some place where she was not
known, and enrol herself among the respectable members of the
community. She was growing old; she wanted rest and a quiet home.
Her early years had been passed in the country. She remembered still
the green fields in which she played as a child, and to this woman,
old and sin-stained, there came a yearning to have that life return.

It occurred to her to look in upon Jack, whom she had left in
captivity four days before. She had a curiosity to see how he bore
his confinement.

She knocked at the door, and was admitted by the old man who kept
the house. Mr. Foley was looking older and more wrinkled than ever.
He had been disturbed of his rest the night previous, he said.

"Then I will find her," he said, gaining courage. "She is somewhere
in the city, and sooner or later I shall find her."

Peg was not one to betray her feelings, but this arrest was a great
disappointment to her. Apart from the consequences which might
result from it, it would prevent her meeting with John Somerville,
and obtaining from him the thousand dollars of which she had
regarded herself certain. Yet even from her prison-cell she might
hold over him in terrorem the threat of making known to Ida's
mother the secret of her child's existence. All was not lost. She
walked quietly to the carriage in waiting, while her companions, in
an ecstasy of terror, seemed to have lost the power of locomotion,
and had to be supported on either side.